{"id":239770,"date":"2026-04-22T13:51:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T13:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/brandon-hagels-gordie-howe-hat-trick-saves-lightning-from-2-0-hole-in-win-over-canadiens\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T13:51:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T13:51:58","slug":"brandon-hagels-gordie-howe-hat-trick-saves-lightning-from-2-0-hole-in-win-over-canadiens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/brandon-hagels-gordie-howe-hat-trick-saves-lightning-from-2-0-hole-in-win-over-canadiens\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Hagel&#8217;s Gordie Howe hat trick saves Lightning from 2-0 hole in win over Canadiens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nhl\/teams\/tampa_bay_lightning\/105\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tampa Bay Lightning\u00a0<\/a>left winger Brandon Hagel was a busy man on Tuesday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; text-align: initial;\">He was busy scoring, assisting and fighting in a game that may mark a turning point in Tampa Bay&#8217;s first-round series against the\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nhl\/teams\/montreal_canadiens\/100\" style=\"font-size: 16px; text-align: initial;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Montreal Canadiens<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 16px; text-align: initial;\">\u00a0in the Stanley Cup playoffs.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Brandon Hagel achieves a notable postseason feat with performance against Canadiens<\/h2>\n<p>Hagel dropped his gloves early in the second period when he and Canadiens left winger Juraj Slafkovsky got into a duster. The Lightning star laid a right hook across Slafkovsky&#8217;s face, dropping him on the ice. Of course, both players were sent to the penalty box for that scuffle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lightning head coach Jon Cooper won&#8217;t appreciate the fight. He called out his team for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nhl\/articles\/the_series_might_be_shorter_than_expected_jon_cooper_hated_the_silly_penalties\/s1_17387_43749306\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">committing too<\/a> many silly penalties following a 4-3 loss in Game 1 on Sunday. Everything else Hagel did, however, made up for that.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nhl\/articles\/brandon_hagels_gordie_howe_hat_trick_saves_lightning_from_2_0_hole_in_win_over_canadiens\/s1_13132_43755492\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tampa Bay Lightning\u00a0left winger Brandon Hagel was a busy man on Tuesday night.\u00a0 He was busy scoring, assisting and fighting in a game that may mark a turning point in Tampa Bay&#8217;s first-round series against the\u00a0Montreal Canadiens\u00a0in the Stanley Cup playoffs.\u00a0 Brandon Hagel achieves a notable postseason feat with performance against Canadiens Hagel dropped his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":239771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-239770","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}